Re: Lots of SCSI-disks, how?!

David Woodhouse (Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:52:51 +0200

Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU said:
> 16 SCSI discs is the limit because the Linux SCSI implementation
> supports 16 partitions per disc. With 8 bit minor numbers, you can
> only fit 16*16 (256) partitions and discs on a SCSI system.

> One "solution" is to increase the minor number size, but that has
> problems with C library compatibilities.

I thought glibc supported 64 bit dev_t. The filesystems might have problems,
though.

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